saturday, december 22, 2007
harvey estes / will shortz
ny times online premium crossword puzzle
difficulty factor: i should have gone out for a couple o' pops t'night... i was not on anywhere near the right wavelength for this one - by any stretch of the imagination!
theme: confusion multiplied by frustration sprinkled liberally with dismay... oh, no, that was just me... there was no theme!
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in the "notes of record" category
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son of a gun, harvey, it was all i could do t' finish this one... i'm friggin' beat up! looking back at it, there wasn't a monumental amount of arcane references, or crosswordese, i just didn't get the synapses firin' very efficiently t'night.
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in the "most googled" category
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17A "the treachery of images" painter MAGRITTE... or perhaps... 25A back to back: fr. DOS A DOS
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in the "cool mutiple word answer" category
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in the "abbreviations, truncations, etc." category
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in the "further elaboration" category
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more later!
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in the "damn-brand-new-t'-me" category
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in the "your mileage may vary" category
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favorite clue/answer:
keep on keepin' on...
dann
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1. lobby, say9. where one can retire young? 13. made further advances? 14. singles player 15. lofty pursuit 16. really moving, musically 17. "the treachery of images" painter 18. whipps candy bar maker 19. some tuscans 20. caret indication 21. sporting news 22. french teacher 23. gizmo that measures gas properties 25. back to back: fr. 31. online registration creations 32. tony-nominated "pippin" actress 34. watergate judge 35. san diego suburb 40. deck figure 41. puts down 43. kind of hero 44. big herbicide producer 46. mushroom producers 47. natural wave catcher 48. impetuses for some outrageous acts 49. comparison basis 50. they, in sao paulo 51. eyeballs 1. perhaps a little too neat 2. "his eyes are _ fire with weeping": shak. 3. creditor's writ 4. one on the way up? 5. kansas city 6. one 7. is relaxed 8. dick thornburgh's predecessor in the cabinet 9. worse in quality, slangily 10. artist who was a founder of the pre-raphaelites 11. encrypted? 12. stages of space exploration 14. tom, dick or harry 16. upper parts of piano duets 24. roadsters 25. opposite of encourage 26. _ shorthair (cat breed) 27. que follower 28. hostilities 29. transfers to another vessel, maybe 30. long-armed redheads 33. colorado city on the rio grande 36. targets of those catching some rays? 37. early palestinian 38. museum of archaeology display 39. son of aphrodite 42. indication of wonderment 45. traffic regs., e.g.
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6 comments:
I hate saturdays. Feh.
Targets of those catching some rays? Natural wave catcher? Long-armed redheads? And WTF is "animuses?" My head hurts.
kalisah,
while i might characterize 'hate' as being too strong a word for my sentiment... i was perturbed that it took so darn long to finish!
dann
kalisah,
i'm glad you elaborated. oddly enough the 'manta' ray clue didn't bother me... the 'oute ear' one made me cuss a bit under my breath... 'orangs' was my first fill-in! and 'animises' as you will see later, is one for the "damn brand new t' me" category!
keep on keepin' on
dann
This is the first one I gave up on in a while. I had "trim" for 1D, which messed up that whole corner, and most of the SE corner defeated me.
Everything ended up making perfect sense, though, except "elegit." That's just not fair.
vladimir,
glad y' stopped by...
i hear on that... i was inclined t' throw in the towel myself... several times... i just walked away and came back to it... walked away and came back... walked away and came back, and finally finished it. i really think it was the second hardest puzzle this year!
dann
(i didn't particularly care for 'eligit' either... too narrow-focused for my liking)
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